Jonathan Alexander
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I imagine you could do this pretty easily by using the motion sketch tool.
1.Record yourself scribbling a bunch on the screen with the motion sketch tool recording on a null object layer.
2.Then create a new solid and use the pen tool to make one single point mask.
3.Next copy the “position” attribute from the null object and paste it into the “mask shape” attribute of your solid layer.(Your mask should now be a line that follows the path of what you recorded in the motion sketch.
4.Then all you have to do is add the effect>render>stroke to the solid layer and play with and keyfrane the “end” attribute to make the line animate on.
5.I would do this with a couple more solid layers with different motion sketch recordings, layer them on top of each other and then once it looks like it is filling up pretty well.
6.Make a Matte that goes on top of all of this so that the lines look like they are filling in a certain shape, i.e. 2 headed dog.
7.Lastly, fade up your final image, i.e. 2 headed dog, all colored in and solid, on top of everything, over a few frames.
That should give a pretty similar effect. Let me know if that helps or doesnt make sence. Hope you get it worked out.
–Jon
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Chris,
Thanks for your lengthy list of directions. Just curious, how does one “degrain” their footage as you have said in your step 1? I want to fool around with some footage and test your steps, but not sure how to start off by doing the degrain thing. Please help! Thanks, I appreciate it, keying has always been that one thing that just frustrated me too much to really get down and dirty with it.
–Jon
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Aaah, that worked, thank you. If you ask me, they should fine tune the wording of the help file, or really, just make it so you can copy the mask, not the “mask shape” and paste that into the position attribute. Anyways, just my two cents. Thanks for clearing that up as always.
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You know what, I went to exactly where you said to in the help menus, but the 2nd to last step, step 3 is confusing or not right. I copied my mask path and select the “postition” attribute of a small square solid later and paste the mask. It pastes it to the layer, but my little square does not animate on it. What am I doing wrong? This seems to be kinda silly. Thanks for any help.
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Create a solid layer and apply the Fractal Noise Effect to it and under “Fractal Type” select “Strings” and bump up the contrast to get some of the noise out of there. . Also, I think it will look better if you set the “Noise Type” to “Spline” Then keyframe the evolution attribute to animate the noise. Add a glow effect maybe. Use this layer with a transfer mode over a aqua bluish backdrop. Should be a good start.
As far as making the text move distort in a wave manner, you could use the same solid from above as a displacement map effect applied to your text layer, but I’m not sure if the stringy effect will look that great when it is used to displace. You could create more undulatung wave displacement with effects like the “turbulent displace” effect. I don’t know, I hope that this helps a little. Let us know how it turns out.
–Jon
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Gave that a try, but still no picture. I know that it is going to the deck because I Can see audio levels on the deck. Some reason Vegas isn’t getting it. Any other suggestion?
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Well I am using 6.5 and if press the comma key one too many times, my workspace stops from zooming out and I can’t use the hand tool to move around anymore either. I wish you were right, maybe there is a preference that needs to be checked. I don’t know.
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This is awesome and very useful for an effect that I am trying to achieve. One question, does anybody know the neccessary steps needed to add more digits to it? I seemed to figure where to adjust the numbers in the expression, but all I get is my digits stopping at 222,222. I’m trying to get the values to animate from 10,000 to 100,000. Thanks in advance for any help with this matter!
–Jonathan
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This is awesome and very useful for an effect that I am trying to achieve. One question, does anybody know the neccessary steps needed to add more digits to it? I seemed to figure where to adjust the numbers in the expression, but all I get is my digits stopping at 222,222. I’m trying to get the values to animate from 10,000 to 100,000. Thanks in advance for any help with this matter!
–Jonathan
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Thanks so much! I’ve been wondering how to do this for so long! I appreciate your help!